The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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There is no later. This is later.
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